The husband I snatched halfway through his life is strange.

Chapter 192 The Wei Family... They Made the Right Choice in Marrying This Woman

Thunder rumbled from the sky, a crack appeared in the heavens, and torrential rain poured down, falling densely onto the windows and eaves.

"why are not you sleeping?"

Xilin Village.

Li Lian was startled awake. She touched the pillow beside her, but it was empty. She turned to look at the village head sitting on a stool, holding a pipe.

"Are you still thinking about Wan Niang?"

The village head sighed, "That child probably resents me."

"If not you, then who should be blamed?"

Li Lian felt a tightness in her chest when she thought about this.

If she weren't afraid of that white tiger today, she would have gone in and dragged the man out of the Hu family's house long ago.

Village head: "But Yaozu..."

Li Lian abruptly interrupted him.

"Is that your grandson?"

"Why should you worry about it?"

"You've been running around doing all this, but this person is caught in the middle, pleasing neither side."

Before Li Lian and Yu Tingwan got to know each other, Li Lian was able to keep a cool head.

But later...

"I think that child, my stepmother, is good."

"After spending a lot of time with her, I felt uneasy every time I saw her."

"Although you asked everyone to keep it a secret back then, it was for her own good."

With no support and no way out, and being born beautiful, she faces immense difficulties in this world.

The less you know, the easier life becomes.

The Hu family's evil deeds, after all these years, have now produced a scholar. People are all opportunistic; they won't feel the pain unless the whip falls on their own skin, so who will bother to hold a grudge?
Her husband values ​​Hu Yaozu, but isn't that also out of selfish motives, hoping he will succeed? Does that make him look good in the village?

Li Lian: "The Hu family's affairs are a mess. Since your stepmother is going to settle things, why are you getting involved?"

The village head remained silent for a long time.

He always thought that Hu Yaozu was reasonable and could distinguish right from wrong.

The young man was always very polite and well-mannered.

But the words he uttered today truly shocked him.

The village head is still in shock.

Li Lian got up, worried that he would get cold, and lit a fire next to him.

The room also became warm.

She sighed deeply: "Aunt Wu told me this evening that she didn't have the heart to go up and say anything when Wan Niang left."

“We can’t control what happened back then. My stepmother rarely goes out these days, but we have some idea of ​​what kind of life she’s been living.”

"You've repeatedly advised Hu Dazhu to keep an eye on Wang Shi, but has it been of any use?"

Li Lian sighed deeply: "Because of Yu Niang's reputation... the elderly people in the village look down on Wan Niang to some extent."

They might not say it, but they all disliked their stepmother and their own mother...

Aren't there enough rumors and gossip circulating behind people's backs?
Those words were incredibly vulgar.

They say Yu Niang is a slut, and Wan Niang is her daughter, but how clean can they really be?

Even if the mother and daughter weren't at fault, they still bear a heavy burden of infamy.

Some things are simply illogical.

When she helped Yu Tingwan find a husband, even though she was the one who intervened, no good families were willing to marry a girl like that.

Li Lian: "Those women who married into the village later didn't know about Yu Niang. They only knew that the Hu family sold their daughter during the famine."

This is a common phenomenon; you get used to it after seeing it so often.

So many years have passed, and the fact that the Hu family is still willing to take care of their niece is a testament to the Hu family's benevolence to those people.

Li Lian was somewhat speechless.

"Many people have told my stepmother that the Hu family treated her well, Hu Dazhu treated her well, and although Wang Shi was mean, she was willing to give her a place to stay, so she was already a good aunt."

"Aunt Wu knows these things, and so do we."

"Yet we still stand by and watch this happen. Making the Hu family's reputation so good is, in the end, aiding and abetting evil."

The village head's hand trembled.

Already of advanced age, he now seemed even older: "Perhaps I'm wrong."

He murmured, "It was wrong from the very beginning."

A strong wind seemed to rise, making the windows rattle and creak.

I could faintly hear shouts and curses from several houses not far away; their houses were probably flooded.

"That girl is truly blessed."

The village head forced a smile.

"She's not confused; she's been clear-headed from the beginning." (If she were a man...)

He would definitely encourage Yu Tingwan to study even more.

Ok.

He was unaware that Yu Tingwan was a headache for the Master.

"Girls like this always manage to live a good life."

“Look at her today, she is nowhere near as disheveled as when she first left the village.”

"The Wei family... they made the right choice in marrying this daughter-in-law."

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The beaded curtain falling from the sky fragmented the street into blurry pieces.

Someone braved the rain and rode into the Zexian post station. Having just taken off his raincoat, he hurried up to the third floor.

He Xuran's trusted confidant, who was waiting outside the door, looked slightly surprised to see him.

They opened the door without asking any questions.

He Xuran was hunched over the messy desk, reviewing case files.

He has been extremely busy lately.

The issue of disaster relief funds is still unresolved, but it has already been secretly obstructed by various forces.

He also needs to find time to investigate the Yu family's affairs.

No one might believe it if I told you.

They were even blocked.

Having been rebuffed at both ends, He Xuran's expression turned grim.

The person opposite me is Yang Weiwen.

He sat upright, having already gathered the identities of all the officials, big and small, from the four cities, their actions during the famine years, where they were currently serving, and whether they had corresponded with each other over the years...

Yang Weiwen looked serious as he sifted through the clues one by one.

Until someone entered, Chao Hexu knelt down.

"Uncle."

He Xuran looked up from her busy work.

Upon seeing who it was, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he said to Yang Weiwen.

"It's getting late, you should go back and rest."

Yang Weiwen wasn't oblivious: "Yes."

As soon as he left, the door was closed again.

He Xuran took a sip of strong tea to clear his head: "Is there something you need, sister?"

This is someone who serves my brother-in-law.

"The lady is concerned about you. She just happened to acquire a few furs and made deer boots, which she then had her men send over. She hopes you will take good care of yourself while you are away from home."

Upon hearing this, He Xuran stepped forward to receive it.

But as he approached, his expression turned serious.

"This kind of thing can be delivered by someone below, why do you need to come personally? But what message did your brother-in-law ask you to bring?"

The other party looked travel-worn.

"The Crown Prince is seriously ill, and His Majesty intended to summon Physician Ge to the capital, but this only caused trouble."

"what for?"

"The palace servants who were supposed to deliver the imperial edict disappeared without a trace on the way."

He Xuran: ...

"It wasn't me who did it, why is my brother-in-law worried?"

"The estate is now under the Fifth Prince's name."

He Xuran: "Ying Yin is quite bold."

"The Fifth Prince is unaware of this matter within the palace."

He Xuran narrowed his eyes, and the playful look on his lips disappeared.

My brother-in-law never gets involved in partisan disputes, so how did he know about this?
"The blame lies here."

The man said, "I don't know how this news got to our master."

"My master ordered his men to investigate."

"He is indeed locked up."

"We don't know who did it."

Knowing too much isn't necessarily a good thing.

But someone deliberately made it so obvious to him, like a silent provocation.

"The matter in Ze County back then still bothers the master. He was afraid that something might happen to you here, so he ordered his subordinates to stay here to protect you."

He Xuran seemed to be deep in thought.